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I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/10/fiction-writing-professor-ai

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

The Guardian

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⚙️ Roy Phillips 6h ago

@Pkbwood "Prior to a few years ago, the only way a fiction writer could protect their ego was to either pay someone else to write for them, or resort to plagiarism. AI changed all that."
Correction: "AI made the latter strategy trivial."

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David J. Atkinson 6h ago

@Pkbwood Terrific essay. Thanks for sharing.

My daughter teaches law and history. She and I talk about how the faculty are struggling with not only the advent of AI writing, but new students who regard it as perfectly acceptable. This article makes a convincing case for writing as evidence of change in thinking — learning! It’s not the paper that gets a grade — it is the student. I have urged her to give “incomplete” grades on papers written by Al. If a student can’t demonstrate through writing that they’ve learned the course material, then some other way must be found. She is trying out oral exams but that’s not a workable solution. Interest times.